I need someone to format a recipe book for me for sale on Amazon

Discussion in 'Content Creation' started by magmark, Mar 9, 2011.

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    The book contains around 600 different recipes and I have already broken these down into 16 different categories but have done this on seperate word documents for

    each.

    What I need is for someone to go through each document, format the document into a format for Amazon upload, then compile each document into the one final document. I

    would also like a table of contents containing each category and each individual recipe title under that, which are all to be hyperlinked. So when a person wants to

    just visit the recipes under chicken, they can just click on chicken and be taken to all of the chicken recipes, or under the Chicken title, if they see the individual

    recipe they would like to go to, they can just click on that and be taken straight to it.

    This is how Amazon likes to have the formatting of a word document:

    For optimum conversion results limit the formatting of your Microsoft Word file to the Word menu commands listed below:

    Plain text, left-aligned
    Plain text, centered
    Plain text, right-aligned
    Plain text, underlined
    Plain text, bold
    Plain text, italicized
    Plain text, bold, italicized
    Plain text, underlined, bold, italicized
    Plain text, strike-through
    Plain text and Plain text in superscript
    Plain text and Plain text in subscript
    Plain text and plain text in both superscript and subscript


    While the Kindle Direct Publishing accepts Word files for eBook conversion, Word files which contain complex formatting may not export well. Kindle content is re-

    flowable and can be viewed with different font sizes; so page numbers and font sizes do not apply. For this reason, there is no need to change the margin's length in

    your book. Blank lines of text should not be inserted to create empty pages. You should use the "Page Break" feature of Word at the end of your chapters for a smoother

    transition and better reading experience. Images can be added to your content to create interest with the 'insert' function of Word rather than merely copy/paste for

    better results.

    If you are submitting your content file in .doc format, the entire book text should be uploaded in one .doc file. To view a sample file with formatting tips, please

    see the Sample Formatting help page.

    Important: A .docx file is a file from Microsoft Word 2007 that is not compatible with previous versions of Word. At this time, documents in .docx format are not

    supported on KDP. If your content has been created in .docx format, please resave your document in .doc format and use the file to upload through KDP.

    The attached file contains an example Microsoft Word document (.doc) showing the formatting (listed above) that will convert well to Amazon KDP. We recommend that you

    use only these formatting styles.

    You can also visit: http://forums.kindledirectpublishing.com/kdpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=114&categoryID=14 for this and more information.

    I'm not sure about the linking in this, but know it can be done for Amazon Kindle Books as I have seen many books advertised with this type of linking for the contents

    page.

    With the formatting, in each document there are various lines that need to be deleted between some of the recipes, some of the recipes are all in caps and need to be

    in a regular sentence font and so forth.

    Can someone please get back to me with a price and when they think they can get it back to me please.

    Thanks
     
    magmark, Mar 9, 2011 IP
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    jmintuck Active Member

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    I might be able to do this for 15 dollars. Can you PM me soon with this?
     
    jmintuck, Mar 9, 2011 IP